Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. The script is only another chapter in the legend of the West. But Sam Peckinpah's triumphant direction places him with the best of the newer generation of American film makers and makes the film a raucous, extremely violent classic of its genre...
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Director Larry Peerce has produced some rare moments of social criticism in this film, but he frequently slips into burlesque. Nevertheless, Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw are always around to save the show with skillful performances...
PEOPLE MEET AND SWEET MUSIC FILLS THE HEART. There is welcome relief in this bizarre Danish film satirizing all that explicit cinematic sexuality...
...Muskie, Eugene McCarthy and many other national figures. Though he could not be there himself, New York Governor Rockefeller provided a jet to carry Evers' admirers southward. Former Attorney Genera.' Ramsey Clark came. So did Civil Rights Leaders Whitney Young and Juliar, Bond, and a delegation of film and TV stars. Leontyne Price was on hand to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...
Died. Leo McCarey, 71, screenwriter and director; of emphysema; in Santa Monica, Calif. McCarey said that every film should be something of a fairy tale and he was as good as his word in Belle of the Nineties, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Awful Truth and Going My Way, the last two of which won him Oscars. "I'll let someone else photograph the ugliness of the world," he once said. "It's larceny to remind people of how lousy things are and call it entertainment...